Welcome to Taurus season — and beware these most toxic traits of the dark bull
Welcome to the rodeo, folks, and the deep heart of Taurus season.
There are many, many merits of the people of the bull: loyalty, a love of luxury, a propensity to overorder for the table, etc. But for every Taurus out there arranging a charcuterie board, beating up their best friend’s ex and giving us all permission for pleasure, there’s a toxic bovine.
And as with all archetypes, Taurus has its dark side, its underbelly, its ugly head and its sharpened horn.
For a song that really sings to the highs and lows of the spirit of the sign, do yourselves a favor and listen to this bull bop by rapper Ros P.
Read on to learn more about the most toxic of all Taurean traits.
Tyrannical
The perpetual toddlers of the zodiac, Taurus folks hate, hate, double-hate being told what to do.
At their worst, the inability to cede control extends to a desire to subjugate others. Shamefully, albeit unsurprisingly, a glut of tyrants have been born bulls. For your consideration and in no particular order: Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin, Sadaam Hussein, Jim Jones and Oliver Cromwell.
Loyal to all the wrong things
As a fixed earth sign, Taurus is interested in stability and deeply resistant to change — but when they dig their hooves in against the forces of fortune, they sell themselves short.
Taurus is often lauded for their loyalty. But in addition to being the zodiac’s resident ride or die, willing to go to bat and take a bat to the car of anyone that has wronged someone they love, bulls also remain loyal to situations they would be better served to see themselves out of: a job they hate, a relationship that’s gone stale, and a dependency on cheese and elastic waistbands.
Too proud to beg forgiveness
If gluttony is a Taurus’ favorite sin, pride plods close behind. Self-righteous and allergic to saying sorry, a bull will sooner eat dryer sheets than accept defeat or admit fault.
In the immortal words of fellow Taurus IndesKribeaBULL: “I’m still not sorry, but I am hungry; you trying to run up the street with me to get a turkey leg?”
Possessive AF
Taurus rules the second house of values and possessions. As such, there is a tendency among Taureans to conflate material wealth with self-worth, measuring themselves by what they have rather than who they are.
Green is the power color of Taurus, and many among the bull herd harbor a nasty jealous streak — coveting, hoarding, comparing and treating the people they love like things they own.
A low vibrational Taurus is concerned with getting and keeping and lives in fear of what can be taken from them.
Think Gollum but better fed.
The grudge that won’t budge
Taurus loves to live in the garden of earthly delights, and within it lies a large flower bed where they water their grudges and tend to their petty vendettas.
Trust: hell hath no fury like a bull betrayed, folks
Case in point: Easy-riding Taurus Dennis Hopper, who held a grave, long grudge against former pal and collaborator Peter Fonda, even making specific arrangements before his death to bar Fonda from attending his funeral. Not for nothing, but author Alexandre Dumas of “Count of Monte Cristo” fame was inspired by the life, times and gratuitous grudge-holding of a Taurus cobbler named Pierre Picaud.
As “Psychology Today” notes, “Rather than process the hurt, learn from the experience, and gain emotional maturity, grudge-holders embrace victimhood, act childishly, and seek payback. They forfeit growth for narrow-mindedness.”
In this sense, holding fast to their own festering hate is the most toxic of Taurus traits as it panders to their lesser angels and keeps them from evolving into the beatific, benevolent bull gods they were born to be.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports back on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. She is also an accomplished writer who has profiled a variety of artists and performers, as well as extensively chronicled her experiences while traveling
